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Novo Ventures, the ventures arm of Novo Holdings, has participated in the oversubscribed fourth BioGeneration Ventures (BGV) fund, BGV IV, which has closed at EUR140 million (USD170 million). As one of the most active biotech investors in US and Europe, Novo Ventures’ investment strategy is to identify and invest in life science companies developing innovative products with the potential to significantly advance patient care. This investment in BGV IV Fund enhances Novo Ventures’ reach into BGV’s home market, the Benelux, which is fast becoming one of the leading and most productive life sciences regions in Europe.
BGV, which is based
Collectia has completed the acquisition of German company Dr Duve Inkasso (DDI), a provider of debt collection services in Germany focusing on the private medical and professional services sectors. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
DDI was founded in 1990 and is based in Hanover, Germany. The Company is a specialist collection business focusing on the medical sector with clients such as vets, dentists, doctors, clinicians and other medical practitioners. DDI also has a strong presence in the professional services sector. DDI employs 21 staff and has a current portfolio of over 40,000 cases accounting for in excess of EUR
The agenda is now largely finalised for Private Equity Wire’s inaugural PEWlive Technology Summit, a new flagship digital event that will be held on 10-11 February featuring a high-level line-up of speakers, presenters and sponsors.
Aon and eVestment have formed a strategic partnership to provide operational due diligence (ODD) research through the eVestment platform, recognising the need for more transparency and standardisation of ODD information.
Mid-market private equity firm Inflexion is to make a significant minority investment in Digital Wholesale Solutions (DWS), an independent IT, communications and cloud wholesale platform, which is currently part of the Daisy Group. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s dedicated minority investment fund, Partnership Capital II. As part of the transaction, DWS will be demerged from Daisy Group with the majority of the shareholders of Daisy Group reinvesting directly into DWS. The transaction values DWS at an enterprise valuation of GBP1 billion.
DWS is a high growth software platform business providing IT, communications and cloud products and services on a
Private equity firm The Riverside Company has made a minority investment in Area Wide Protective (AWP) in connection with Kohlberg & Company’s (Kohlberg) recent acquisition of the company. The investment was made out of Riverside’s Strategic Capital Fund (RSCF).Headquartered in North Canton, Ohio, AWP is North America’s leading provider of outsourced temporary traffic safety management (TTSM) solutions supporting infrastructure repair, maintenance and upgrade activities for a broad range of blue-chip utilities, utility contractors and roadway maintenance providers. AWP delivers critical TTSM solutions that are essential to its customers’ operations and ensure the safety of their crews as well as the
Industrial Opportunity Partners (IOP), an operations-focused private equity firm, has partnered with the current management team and owners of Little Giant Ladder Systems (Little Giant), to support a recapitalisation of the business. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Little Giant is a designer, marketer and manufacturer of ladder systems to retailers and distributors in the US and internationally. The Company is based in Springville, Utah and has approximately 250 employees.
Little Giant’s products are used by do-it-yourself and professional customers and are sold through brick- and-mortar, e-commerce, industrial distribution and international channels. The Company designs, engineers, manufactures and sells
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the sale of NuArx, a provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and secure payment solutions, to Sysnet Global Solutions, a provider of cyber security and compliance solutions. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, NuArx provides integrated managed security and PCI compliance software to more than 100 leading retail businesses with over 40,000 merchant locations through its SecurePCI platform. The Company sells its software as subscription-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with tiered features that allow customers to receive training and certify that their businesses
Buy and build Investment group Tristone Capital – through its care division Tristone Healthcare – has acquired North Wales-based care business, ProCare (Wales) Limited. ProCare employs 140 staff across two care homes and a community living service. This is the second deal in the last six months for Tristone Healthcare. The investor’s strategy is to acquire high-quality businesses with strong fundamentals, delivering outstanding care and support to vulnerable people who need it most.
ProCare was founded in 2001 by Helen Shepherd and is one of the UK’s leading high acuity care businesses, providing care for individuals, between the ages of
An investor group led by JC Flowers & Co and Värde Partners has completed the previously announced sale of Fairstone Financial Holdings (Fairstone) to Duo Bank of Canada, a Toronto-based financial services provider supported by Stephen Smith, Centerbridge Partners LP and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.Värde Partners and JC Flowers acted as equal partners in the transaction, which began in 2017 when the investor group acquired CitiFinancial Canada from Citi and rebranded the Company as Fairstone. Under the ownership of JC Flowers and Värde, Fairstone has grown into a leading Canadian non-bank provider of responsible credit solutions for near-prime borrowers. The
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